Footlighters present believable, everyday young people who fall in love with a bit of misadventure along the way

A lot of this production's likability is rooted in director Mark Femia's big, enthusiastic cast, a majority of them students from the theater program at Northern Kentucky University. Robbie (Ryan Shealy) and Julia (Monica Tenhover) are engaged to people they don't belong with and they come to see one another as better choices. (The 1998 film was one of Adam Sandler's first, with Drew Barrymore playing the sweetly innocent Julia.)